Rostec: Russian defense sector has to assert itself in global struggle for technological superiority
MOSCOW. Nov 22 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian defense sector has an important objective - the adoption of breakthrough technologies, Rostec State Corporation General Director Viktor Chemezov said.
"We are implementing an optimistic scenario of the defense sector's development strategy. The modernization strategy should not be catching up but feature advanced growth and innovations and focus on breakthrough technologies of the sixth technological level and organizational and structural transformations of defense plants," Chemezov said in his greetings to delegates at the first all-Russia scientific and practical conference on economic development and the provision of resources for the rocket and space industry held at the People's Friendship University of Russia.
Chemezov's advisor, Professor Nikolai Turkov read out the introductory remarks.
"The contemporary world is on the brink of the transformation of scientific discoveries into high-tech and competitive products. There is a tight rivalry for technological superiority between developed countries," the greetings said.
"The dynamics of contemporary geopolitics proves the correctness of a hypothesis that military force cannot be totally excluded from the system of the protection of national security in the near or distant future of international relations," Chemezov said.
"It is hard to say how an armed confrontation may look in 15-20 years when fifth-generation weapons, which are currently being developed, become outdated. One thing is clear though: the development of new types of armaments will become the exclusive competence of states with a high level of the development of basic technologies used in the creation of high-precision tactical and strategic weapons," Chemezov said.
"The defense industry has been and remains a major element of the country's economic development and defense capacity," he said.
"This is the sector concentrating military, dual and civilian high technologies, which determine to a large degree the general level of technological development of the domestic industry and the Russian economy's transition to a path of innovative development," Chemezov said.
"The accomplishment of future missions is linked to the broad use of modern information technologies within a single information and technological space based on specialized computer environments, the innovative development of electronics, including nano- and micro-electronics and microwave engineering, photonics, optoelectronics, laser technologies, bio-technologies, composite and high-energy materials, traditional and alternative energy resources and so on," the greetings run.